Development of socio-emotional competence in bonobos

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 18121-18126

  Clay, Zanna ^a   De Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional control; Personal distress; Social deprivation; Sympathetic concern

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FRIENDSHIP; JUVENILE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS;

EMOTIONAL CONTROL; PERSONAL DISTRESS; SOCIAL DEPRIVATION; SYMPATHETIC CONCERN;

ANIMALS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; PAN PANISCUS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84887286421     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316449110     Document Type: Article

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